ARGENTINA: Triumph & Trouble

Argentina had declared war on the Axis. Now, by underwriting the
obligations (and pious hopes) of the Act of Chapultepec, she made
herself internationally respectable, diplomatically recognizable.

Venezuela led the way. Midway in a stampede of American republics came
the U.S. resumption of "normal diplomatic relations" with the military
regime which it had so long and so loudly denounced as fascist.
Britain, relieved and not unmindful of beef, added her spoonful of
honey.

But the Argentine Government, however triumphant abroad, had trouble at
home. Bursting from long repression, the Supreme Court declared...